We didn't bring it up, but it's interesting to note how in the beginning of the movie the aliens are all mystical monk-ish types, all robes and cloth, and their spaceship is a smooth-surfaced disk. But then when our main characters go to their planet it's all extruded-resin and metal and bone, and everything is all H.R. Giger nooks-and-crannies groteqsuely-textured surfaces.

In the bonus features of the DVD/BluRay, there were a number of deleted/modified scenes that touched on there being more of the Engineers in robes on the planet. Likely they were the ones depicted in the cave walls as the 'Gods' showing the prehistoric people "See, there that planet holds your death."

Otherwise they wore robes for the same reasons we do, because it was cold and they weren't strapped into the Space Jockey position.

Another few nods came up in one scene that got cut where the biologist who dies from snake-throat rape finds a larger worm while searching with the team and David says "Our first Alien."

I looked up the guy who played the boyfriend in "Prometheus" on IMDB, and the character's name is Charlie Holloway, which I am thinking is a reference to the character Charlie and the actor Josh Holloway from "Lost."

Maybe Damon Lindeloff should've spent more time writing a tight screenplay and less time coming up with snappy names for characters.

Hearing this reminded me of another podcast review of Prometheus just as it was still in the theaters with the reviewer feeling the same way with the film going from being a sort of 2001: A Space Odyssey-like exploration and ending up resembling a Universal Monster film as he put it. It's nice to know a fan-edit managed to make things clearer for those who had wasted the $12-15 before and perhaps needed a second go of it to put it all together.

Wanted to like the movie. Tried to like the movie. Actually liked some elements of the movie. It was still hard to look past all the major logical issues in character motives. I have typed enough on the subject in other places, but I think the writer/ director actually spending some time in a lab/ corporate environment might have remedied some of the holes in the film.